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We study the capillary wave dynamics of a single viscoelastic supported film and of a double layer of immiscible viscoelastic supported films. Using both simple scaling arguments and a continuum hydrodynamic theory, we investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark L. Henle , Alex J. Levine

We report the observation of changes in the wave turbulence properties of gravity-capillary surface waves due to a finite depth effect. When the fluid depth is decreased, a hump is observed on the wave spectrum in the capillary regime at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-14 Eric Falcon , Claude Laroche

Our understanding of both structure and dynamics of adsorbed liquids heavily relies on the capillary wave Hamiltonian, but a thorough test of this model is still lacking. Here we study the capillary wave fluctuations of a liquid film with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Luis G. MacDowell , Jorge Benet , Nebil A. Katcho

We experimentally study linear and nonlinear waves on the surface of a fluid covered by an elastic sheet where both tension and flexural waves take place. An optical method is used to obtain the full space-time wave field, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-10 Luc Deike , Jean-Claude Bacri , Eric Falcon

The propagation of a chemical wave in a narrow, cone-shaped glass capillary was investigated. When a chemical wave propagates from the wider end to the narrower end, it slows, stops, and then disappears. A phenomenological model that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroyuki Kitahata , Ryoichi Aihara , Yoshihito Mori , Kenichi Yoshikawa

The well-known thermal capillary wave theory, which describes the capillary spectrum of the free surface of a liquid film, does not reveal the transient dynamics of surface waves, e.g., the process through which a smooth surface becomes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-17 Yixin Zhang , James E. Sprittles , Duncan A. Lockerby

The Weak Turbulence Theory has been applied to waves in thin elastic plates obeying the F\"oppl-Von K\'arm\'an dynamical equations. Subsequent experiments have shown a strong discrepancy between the theoretical predictions and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Benjamin Miquel , Alexandros Alexakis , Nicolas Mordant

The results of direct numerical simulation of plane-symmetric turbulence of water waves for potential flows within the framework of conformal variables taking into account low-frequency pumping and high-frequency viscous dissipation are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-04 E. A. Kochurin , E. A. Kuznetsov

We study theoretically the capillary-gravity waves created at the water-air interface by a small two-dimensional perturbation when a depth-dependent current is initially present in the fluid. Assuming linear wave theory, we derive a general…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Michael Benzaquen , Elie Raphael

The influence of chaotic capillary waves on the time-averaged shape of a liquid volume is studied experimentally and theoretically. In that context, a liquid film containing a stable hole is subjected to Faraday waves. The waves induce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Steffen Bisswanger , Henning Bonart , Pyi Thein Khaing , Steffen Hardt

This paper explores decaying turbulence beneath surface waves that is initially isotropic and shear-free. We start by presenting phenomenology revealed by wave-averaged numerical simulations: an accumulation of angular momentum in coherent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-10 Gregory L. Wagner , Navid C. Constantinou

The statistical properties of a large number of weakly nonlinear waves can be described in the framework of the Weak Turbulence Theory. The theory is based on the hypothesis of an asymptotically large system. In experiments, the systems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-07 Roumaissa Hassaini , Nicolas Mordant

Wave turbulence describes the long-time statistical behavior of out-of-equilibrium systems composed of weakly interacting waves. Non-Hermitian media ranging from open quantum systems to active materials can sustain wave propagation in…

The study of capillary wave scattering by a circular region with different interfacial properties from the rest of an otherwise homogeneous interface is motivated by experiments on wave attenuation at a monolayer covered air-water interface…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Chou , S. K. Lucas , H. A. Stone

The study points out that the traditional solutions to wave equation of dissipative wave and motion equation of block for a multi-degree-of-freedom mass spring damper system are the possible solutions, which are not necessarily objective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Peng Shi

Experiments over the last 50 years have suggested a tentative correlation between the surface (shear) viscosity and the stability of a foam or emulsion. We examine this link theoretically using small-amplitude capillary waves in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Li Shen , Fabian Denner , Neal Morgan , Berend van Wachem , Daniele Dini

The decay of turbulent and laminar oblique bands in the lower transitional range of plane Couette flow is studied by means of direct numerical simulations of the Navier--Stokes equations. We consider systems that are extended enough for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Manneville

By performing two parallel numerical experiments -- solving the dynamical Hamiltonian equations and solving the Hasselmann kinetic equation -- we examined the applicability of the theory of weak turbulence to the description of the time…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 V. E. Zakharov , A. O. Korotkevich , A. Pushkarev , D. Resio

Wave breaking is a critical process in the upper ocean: an energy sink for the surface wave field and a source for turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer. We apply a novel multi-layer numerical solver resolving upper-ocean dynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jiarong Wu , Stéphane Popinet , Bertrand Chapron , J. Thomas Farrar , Luc Deike

We investigate theoretically the onset of capillary-gravity waves created by a small object moving at the water-air interface. It is well established that, for straight uniform motion, no steady waves appear at velocities below the minimum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. D. Chepelianskii , M. Schindler , F. Chevy , E. Raphaël